VAUGHT Family History

VAUGHT, PHILLIPI, LOVE, CRAWFORD, SMITH, WHITE, EWING

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 4/6/2006 at 20:19:23

"A PARTIAL HISTORY OF THE VAUGHT FAMILY"
By Edgar S. VAUGHT, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June, 1950
(Contributed by Mary Shipler Workman)

...My personal interviews with my oldest relatives during my boyhood days disclosed that my direct ancestors came from Pennsylvania and settled in Augusta County, Virginia, and later moved to Montgomery County, Virginia.

My reliable information, however, begins with my great-great-grandfather Christley VAUGHT, who removed from Augusta County, Virginia, to Montgomery County, Virginia, many years prior to the Revolutionary War. His father apparently was either Casper VAUGHT or John Paul VAUGHT, Augusta County residents there as early as 1750. His wife was named Elizabeth, but her maiden name is not disclosed. He had a family of three sons and seven daughters....

Christley's sons were George, my great-grandfather, who settled on the headwaters of Cripple Creek, Wythe County; Christley, Jr., who settled south of White Rock Furnace in Smythe County, a few miles west of George; and Henry, who removed to Kentucky about the year 1830....

Christley VAUGHT lived to a ripe old age as he died August 9, 1830... His son George VAUGHT apparently was the oldest child of Christley, and about 1775 settled on lands on Cripple Creek near what is now Cedar Springs, Virginia. He married Christiana PHILLIPI and they had 12 children. There was a constant emigration from Virginia about ths time to western, northwestern and southern states. His sons were Andrew and John, both of whom moved to Kentucky about 1820; Charles, who reared a family in Wythe County; Abraham (my grandfather) who built a home on a portion of the lands settled by his father and about one fourth of a mile from his father's home; Joseph, who lived in the old home erected by his father and reared a family there; Peter, who reared a family in Wythe County; Jefferson, who reared a family in Smythe County; George, who died without issue; and David, who reared a family in Wythe County....

In a vault in the clerk's office at Christiansburg, the original and present county seat of Montgomery County, Virginia, was found in August, 1937, a packet of old papers, known as "Fincastle Papers", which contained the muster rolls of Revolutionary soldiers from Montgomery County, among which was one containing the list of Captain William LOVE's Company as follows:

"Montgomery County, Capt. William LOVE's Company, April 5, 1781.

William LOVE, Capt.
James CRAWFORD, Lt.
Jarvis SMITH, Lt.
James WHITE, Ensign
George EWING, Sergt.
John VAUGHT, Private
Christley VAUGHT, Private
David VAUGHT, Private
George VAUGHT, Private
Casper VAUGHT, Private"

It is believed that John, Christley and David were brothers and George VAUGHT was the son of Christley as listed hereinbefore.

From this family of VAUGHTs in Augusta and Montgomery Counties came most, if not all, of the emigrants by that name to Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, and the descendants from these emigrants may be able to trace their lineage back to those pioneers as listed herein.

One striking characteristic of the VAUGHT family, aside from the very large families, is found in the given names. The names Christley, George, Peter, David, John, Capser, Charles, Jefferson, Andrew, James and Christopher appear in almost every generation....."

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s).